parallel evolution
平行进化,平行演化,平行演变,并行演化
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- : the independent development of closely corresponding adaptive features in two or more groups of organisms that occupy different but equivalent habitats, as marsupial mammals in Australia and placental mammals on other continents.
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Human evolution has left men as deeply wired for emotional connections to children as women are.
This view is known as “theistic evolution” and is widely embraced by educated evangelicals.
The moment where they enter the spirit portal symbolizes their evolution from being friends to being a couple.
A professional ballroom dancer and instructor, her name reflects a parallel that runs in both BDSM and dance: symbiosis.
The traditional wisdom is “action is character,” and their evolution is one, with a slight edge to character.
The evolution theory alleges that they were evolved, slowly, by natural processes out of previously existing matter.
To fix on any one stage in such an evolution, detach it, affirm it, is to wrest a true scripture to its destruction.
In this Isthmus is port royal, where we are now sojourning, lying on the parallel of 44 40'.
We'll keep parallel with these gentlemen, and if they get out of touch with the rest we'll make a try at nailing them.
The biological doctrine of evolution was misinterpreted and misapplied to social policy.